joey / blog / entry / 2020 hindsight Edit RecentChanges History Preferences Branchable 1 comment (Someone stumbled upon my 2010 decade retrospective post and suggested I write a followup...) This has been a big decade for me. Ten years ago , I'd been in an increasingly stale job for several years too long. I was tired of living in the city, and had a yurt as a weekend relief valve. I had the feeling a big change was coming. Four months on and I quit my job, despite the ongoing financial crisis making prospects poor for other employment, especially work on free software. I tried to start a business, Branchable, with liw, based on my earlier ikiwiki project, but it never really took off. However, I'm proud it's still serving the users it did find, 10 years later. Then, through luck and connections, I found a patch of land in a blank spot in the map with the mos...